It's 2011 and I'm more than ready and anxious to get going again with the bees!
I plan on having 2 active hives this year so I've ordered 2 nucs to start off with. A nuc is a hive nucleus - it is a box that has 5 working frames with the queen already laying eggs on it. So the bees and the queen are already aclimated to each other. Supposedly it means that the bees start up immediately when installed into my hive. When you start with 3 lbs of bees and a new queen, there is a lag period where the new queen and bees aclimate to each other, then a slow die off of bees while the queen begins laying and new bees develop to build the hive population. With the nuc, the hive is supposedly immediately functional. Time will tell.
Bee nucs will come in April.
Monday, March 7, 2011
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